Alopen (Chinese: 阿羅本, fl. AD 635; also "Aleben", "Aluoben", "Olopen," "Olopan," or "Olopuen") is the first recorded Assyrian Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty. He was a missionary from the Church of the East (also known as the "Nestorian Church"),[1] and probably a Syriac speaker from the Sasanian Empire or from Byzantine Syria.[citation needed] He is known exclusively from the Xi'an Stele, which describes his arrival in the Tang capital of Chang'an in 635 and his acceptance by Emperor Taizong of Tang. His is the earliest known name that can be attached to the history of the Church of the East in China.
^Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
Alopen (Chinese: 阿羅本, fl. AD 635; also "Aleben", "Aluoben", "Olopen," "Olopan," or "Olopuen") is the first recorded Assyrian Christian missionary to have...
collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from Sassanian Mesopotamia, and the 8th-century...
as the Nestorian Stele records a mission under a Persian proselyte named Alopen as introducing Nestorian Christianity to China in 635. The Jingjiao Documents...
earliest Christian works can be dated back to the period of Alopen. In 638, three years after Alopen's arrival in China, the first Christian church was built...
known as the Nestorian Stele describes a mission under a proselyte named Alopen as introducing Nestorian Christianity to China in 635. In the 7th century...
Christian mission to China was led by the Syriac monk known in Chinese as Alopen. Alopen's mission arrived in the Chinese capital Chang'an in 635, during the...
According to the Xi'an Stele, Emperor Taizong recognized the Nestorian Church of the East, due to efforts of the Christian missionary Alopen in 635 CE....
Nestorian monks from Anatolia and the Sasanian Empire built the Daqin Pagoda. Alopen wrote the Jesus Sutras. Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun: The...
Shield Jaguar II The Xi'an Stele (781) records the success of the missionary Alopen in Tang China in Chinese and Syriac. It is borne by a Bixi and forbidden...
Women in the patristic age List of Christian women of the patristic age Alopen, a key patristic-era figure in the Church Of The East, wrote in Chinese...
destroy the Göktürk Khanate. 632: The Muslim conquests begin. 635–649: Alopen, a Persian Christian priest, introduces Nestorian Christianity into China...
Christian Scriptures which were given to him by the Assyrian missionary Alopen, realized "their propriety and truth and specifically ordered their preaching...
the history of the Liang dynasty. Christian missionaries arrive in China: Alopen, bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East, preaches Nestorian Christianity...
by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to early Christian groups. Alopen – first missionary to China (Nestorian) Apollos Augustine of Canterbury...
dynasty (618–907) A Christian mission under the leadership of the priest Alopen (described variously as Persian, Syriac, or Nestorian) was known to have...
in China since the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD) when a Persian monk named Alopen came to the capital Chang'an in 635 to proselytize, as described in a dual...
re-introduced by foreign missionaries. The arrival of the Persian missionary Alopen in 635, during the early period of the Tang dynasty, is considered by some...
Clergy Patriarch Ishoyahb II Alopen Adam Artifacts Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho Xi'an Stele Nestorian pillar of Luoyang Mogao Christian painting...
Clergy Patriarch Ishoyahb II Alopen Adam Artifacts Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho Xi'an Stele Nestorian pillar of Luoyang Mogao Christian painting...
earlier during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD) when a Persian monk named Alopen (Chinese: Āluósī; 阿羅本; 阿羅斯[citation needed]) came to the capital Chang'an...
Christian mission to China was led by the Syriac monk known in Chinese as Alopen. Alopen's mission arrived in the Chinese capital Chang'an in 635, during the...
painting was made based on the icon of Christ that the Persian missionary Alopen carried to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire. The figure with the...
existed in China earlier during the Tang dynasty when a Persian monk named Alopen came to Chang'an in 653 to proselytize, as described in a dual Chinese and...
Clergy Patriarch Ishoyahb II Alopen Adam Artifacts Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho Xi'an Stele Nestorian pillar of Luoyang Mogao Christian painting...
missionary devices of the Church of the East, dating around the time of Bishop Alopen, a Syriac-speaking Persian. The translations of names and religious terms...
Clergy Patriarch Ishoyahb II Alopen Adam Artifacts Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho Xi'an Stele Nestorian pillar of Luoyang Mogao Christian painting...
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